Ship Model in a glass case (What & Where?)

[Norman_E]

I apologise for the reflections, but thought this was a fantastic model.
I expect many forumites know what this is and where.
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[michael_w]

Now that's what I call a tender. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif What price your fancy RIB?

Nautical museum in Lisbon?

 

[Norman_E]

Right idea, wrong City.

 

[Poignard]

Paris?

 

[sarabande]

Very nice, so Venice , or Stockholm, or

 

[Blueboatman]

But you just cant get good crew these days.....

 

[johnalison]

Re: Ship Model in a glass case (What & Where?)

Amsterdam?

 

[Norman_E]

One guess at a time please!

 

[Norman_E]

Especially as each of the 44 oars required four oarsmen!

 

[Helina]

Athens

 

[No1_Moose]

Greenwich

 

[Norman_E]

Somebody must KNOW where it is and what. The correct city has already been mentioned, so surely someone here has seen it, or at least knows what it is?

If nobody gets it right I will give the answer after dinner.
Clue. The same museum has a slow speed manned torpedo on display.

 

[johnalison]

Re: Ship Model in a glass case (What & Where?)

It's not Bucentaur is it?

 

[sarabande]

I don't guess, I make inspired haphazard deductions.

I'll stick with Stockholm, but the decorative front end looks too rich for the state barge.

 

[michael_w]

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Clue. The same museum has a slow speed manned torpedo on display.

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Didn't see it in the Imperial War Museum.

Went round the IWM the other day. Very impressive, from human torpedoes to a LRDG truck recovered very recently from Libya via T E Lawrence's Brough Superior motorbike. Recommend a visit for informed forumites.

 

[Norman_E]

Re: Ship Model in a glass case (What & Where?)

Correct, but the spelling in the museum is Bucintoro.

For those that do not know about it, the model is in the Museo Storico Navale in Venice. The original was about 155 feet long and must have displaced over 100 tons. It was purely a ceremonial vessel, used when the Doge of Venice performed the marriage with the sea ceremony. It was propelled by 44 four man oars. The original was destoyed when Napoleon's forces captured Venice and burned its gilded superstructure in order to recover and steal the gold.

The museum is close to the Arsenale, a short walk from St. Marks, but visited by only a tiny percentage of the tourists who flood most of the city.

 

[Norman_E]

See above, The Venice museum has an Italian slow speed torpedo in the entrance hall. I think it had a crew of two frogmen, who had to get off and swim for it, when they had manoeuvred it close to an enemy ship. One of them sunk a large British warship in WW2. They also have a high speed one man motorboat that had 300 KG of explosive in the bows, and a floating ejector seat for the pilot, who had to aim it at the enemy vessel, lock the steering, and eject. A pity I did not take photos of either.

 

[tome]

Re: Ship Model in a glass case (What & Where?)

Ah yes, I know that torpedo. It was the first to be fitted with reversing gear

 

[copterdoctor]

It's a model of a ship in a glass case.